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A Quiet Revolution in Clean-Energy Finance

Harvard Business Review

Between 2006 and 2008, more than $1 billion venture-capital dollars were channeled into startups focused on solar, wind and biofuel technologies. A star example is Google, which raised a mere $40 million in private funding before its IPO at a $23 billion valuation.

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Use Data to Fix the Small Business Lending Gap

Harvard Business Review

However, all these online models depend on developing accurate new predictive models of credit assessment, often using new sources of data. Online lending platforms like OnDeck have been using information on cash flows and direct deposits from small businesses’ bank accounts as a key indicator of credit health since 2006.

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Use Data to Fix the Small Business Lending Gap

Harvard Business Review

However, all these online models depend on developing accurate new predictive models of credit assessment, often using new sources of data. Online lending platforms like OnDeck have been using information on cash flows and direct deposits from small businesses’ bank accounts as a key indicator of credit health since 2006.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. On the finance and deal side, we also felt a strong kinship with Tsai. servers.

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How Israeli Startups Can Scale

Harvard Business Review

As a result, tech-sector employment has declined as a percent of the workforce, from 11% in 2006–2008 to 9% in 2013. Are Israeli companies on the verge of developing a repeatable playbook to scale their companies and become market leaders, not just acquisition fodder for the Silicon Valley giants? But is all of that changing?